Sales numbers
Jul. 13th, 2008 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesI finally updated my sales spreadsheet with the figures for May and June, prompted by a thread at Absolute Write. Cutting and pasting what I posted there:
Obviously these are not necessarily an indicator of what other people might achieve, or indeed what I might achieve with future titles. But this is why I want to see hard numbers when epubbed authors say that a new epublisher has wonderful sales. My sales numbers are minuscule compared with those of my friends who are published in mass market paperback, but they are still an order of magnitude greater than those reported by authors at some epubs. I'm not saying this to brag, but to point out that authors can do better than a dozen copies sold in the first quarter. Loose Id's numbers weren't that wonderful when they first opened, but they were still significantly better than *that*.
For some sales numbers -- of my 15 titles to date at Loose Id, I have one title with over 1500 copies sold, and four more with over 1000 copies sold, one of which will probably hit 1500 this month. (OTOH, I also have one that failed miserably, with only 150 copies in its first six months. Even at a successful epub, titles occasionally sink without trace.)
Obviously these are not necessarily an indicator of what other people might achieve, or indeed what I might achieve with future titles. But this is why I want to see hard numbers when epubbed authors say that a new epublisher has wonderful sales. My sales numbers are minuscule compared with those of my friends who are published in mass market paperback, but they are still an order of magnitude greater than those reported by authors at some epubs. I'm not saying this to brag, but to point out that authors can do better than a dozen copies sold in the first quarter. Loose Id's numbers weren't that wonderful when they first opened, but they were still significantly better than *that*.